On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, David Thompson wrote: > My concern about using ramdisks on linux is that AFAIK linux ram disks use > physical (not virtual) memory. Thus, you partition your memory and prevent > the OS from managing AFS cache usage vs. all the other memory demands.
Yeah, but that's true anyway. The AFS memcache is allocated at startup and uses a constant amount of memory. It also has a constant chunk size, which means the same amount of total cache is used less efficiently than a filesystem-based cache is. -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Research Systems Programmer School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
